Child’s Dream Association: Provide access to life-saving operations and medical interventions for infants and children
Organization information
Child's Dream Association
Location: Genève, Switzerland
Summary
In remote areas of the Mekong Sub Region, 7 out of 100 children die before their fifth birthday, most of them from diseases which are preventable and treatable. Therefore, our work starts here by providing health interventions and improving the probability of survival.
Our core focus is to tackle the limited access to health care and personnel among the disadvantaged communities of rural Lao PDR and Myanmar.
Established in 2006, the Children’s Medical Fund (CMF) provides access to life-saving operations and medical interventions for infants and children. In promoting the health service, we prioritise treatments of congenital disorder as it is one of the leading causes of the nations' child mortality and the surgical procedure is normally expensive and complex that the majority of the families cannot afford the necessary medication, let alone the costly operations.
With approx. 150 patients annually, our targeted beneficiaries are children aged 0 - 12 who have been diagnosed with cardiac disorder, anorectal malformations, and neural tube defects. Without access and financial support to quality health care, many of these children either die prematurely or are crippled by disability and unable to attend school, perpetuating the cycle of poverty.
TGE Partner: Swiss Philanthropy Foundation
Project locations
Burma (Myanmar), Laos